• Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of detailed diagrams and technical illustrations exploring the evolution and importance of the starcut diagram
• Shows how the starcut diagram underlies the shaman’s dance in China, the Vedic Fire Altar in India, Raphael frescoes, labyrinth designs, the Great Pyramid in Egypt, and the building of ancient cities
• Explains how the starcut diagram was used in building and design, how it relates to Pythagoras’s Tetrakys, and how it contains knowledge of the Tree of Life
As Malcolm Stewart reveals in this lavishly illustrated study, the simplesquare figure of the Starcut diagram, created only with circles, has extraordinary geometric properties. It allows you to make mathematically exact measurements and build perfectly true level structures without a computer, calculator, slide rule, plumb bob, or laser level. Sharing his extensive research, along with hundreds of detailed diagrams and technical illustrations, the author shows how the Starcut diagram was the key to the building of humanity’s first cities and how it underlies many significant patterns and proportions around the world.
Using circles drawn from the vesica piscis, Stewart explains how to create the Starcut diagram and shows how this shape was at the foundation of ancient building and design, illustrating the numerous connections between the diagram and the creation of mandalas and yantras, stained glass windows, architectural ground plans, temples and other sacred buildings, and surveying methods. He also shows how the Starcut diagram reveals ancient geometric knowledge of pi, the Fibonacci sequence, Pythagorean shapes and seals, the golden ratio, the power of 108 and other sacred numbers, and magic squares.
Exploring the Starcut diagram’s cosmological and theological implications, Stewart explains how it contains knowledge of the Tree of Life and the Kabbalah. He examines how it relates to the Tetraktys, the key teaching device of Pythagoras, and other cosmograms. Demonstrating the ancient relationships existing between number, geometry, cosmology, and musical harmony, the author shows how the simple shape of the Starcut diagram unifies the many threads of sacred geometry into one beautiful mathematical tapestry.
Author(s): Malcolm Stewart
Publisher: Inert traditions
Year: 2022
Cover Image
Title Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1. An Introduction to Sacred Geometry: Who Tastes Knows
The Sand Reckoner and the Starcut Diagram
The Tetraktys
Structure
Some Notes on Style and Content
Reassurance
Mistakes
Chapter 2. Unity in the Liberal Arts
The Mnemonic is the Message
The Liberal Arts
Chapter 3. Opening the Box
Chapter 4. Altar of the First Fire
Mythic Associations—The Swami and the Architect
The Starcut
Chapter 5. The Tartans of Pythagoras
The Arica Yantras
The Wild Bunch
Chapter 6. Pyramid Connections
The Magic 7 And 11
The Great Pyramid Sheked
New Measures
Chapter 7. The Sword Master’s Floor Plan
Chapter 8. The Hidden Geometry of the “Divine Raphael”
Causarum Cognitio
The Central Starcut
Chapter 9. Guardian Apollo
Chapter 10. Conjecture
Chapter 11. Beautiful Diagonals
Similar Triangles
Chapter 12. Clues to a Forgotten Lore
Whole-Number Triangles
What Fibonacci Didn’t Know
Chapter 13. The Mother of All Pentagons
Chapter 14. The Area Key
The Cube
Chapter 15. The Secret and the Sacred
Chapter 16. Wheels of Number and Time
The Great Square—72 and 720
Chapter 17. Powers of 108
Chapter 18. Ten Pebbles in the Sand
Chapter 19. Harmony at the Horizon of Being
The Centrality of 6
Prime Numbers
Chapter 20. The Shape of Concord
Astrological Implication
Chapter 21. The Lyre of Apollo
The Starcut and Apollo’s Lyre
A Last Harmony
Chapter 22. The Puzzle That Drives You Mad
Chapter 23. Reflections within the Light
Chapter 24. Inevitable Sufis
Chapter 25. The Luo Shu and the Limping Dance
Snakes and Ladders
Yu Bu—The Limping Dance
Chapter 26. . . . Finally
Epilogue
Appendix. The Starcut Glass Bead Games
The Game Board
The Games
Bibliography
About the Author
About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
Books of Related Interest
Copyright & Permissions
Index
Copyright
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1: ‘I’m thinking’ – Oh, but are you?
Chapter 2: Renegade perception
Chapter 3: The Pushbacker sting
Chapter 4: ‘Covid’: The calculated catastrophe
Chapter 5: There is no ‘virus’
Chapter 6: Sequence of deceit
Chapter 7: War on your mind
Chapter 8: ‘Reframing’ insanity
Chapter 9: We must have it? So what is it?
Chapter 10: Human 2.0
Chapter 11: Who controls the Cult?
Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko
Postscript
Appendix: Cowan-Kaufman-Morell Statement on Virus Isolation
Bibliography
Index
